The Leeds Doughnut started up in 2021, to bring integrated thinking and doing to the movement for city scale change. It was born out of the National Lottery funded Climate Action Leeds programme, which works for a zero carbon, nature friendly, socially just Leeds by the 2030s. Within that, the Leeds Doughnut's vision is of a city where people and planet thrive.
April 2022 saw the publication of the first Leeds Doughnut City Portrait, a full research report and summary document setting out a sketch portrait of how Leeds is doing against the various dimensions of the Doughnut's 4 lenses. The report was launched at a packed-out full day event, with a diverse audience taking part in discussion, workshops and activities exploring what the findings mean for Leeds. Find the reports here:
Last Autumn, we were excited to premiere the Leeds Doughnut illustrated film at the 'From Vision to Action' climate assembly held at Leeds City Museum. Check it out below (and please like and share too).
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The Leeds Doughnut Coalition is an open invitation with many entry points depending on your interests, time and energy. Whether you simply want to be kept informed or want to volunteer some time to the team, if you want to get stuck into strategising or have a project idea you'd like to develop with us - hopefully you can find your place.
We hold monthly lunchtime meetings on Wednesdays and there are a range of doughnut related projects and offshoots to join too. There's a mailing list for occasional updates, and a Leeds Doughnut Coalition workspace on the Slack platform which we use as a virtual office for communicating and organising. Get in touch with Jenni Brooks, our Doughnut Economics Lead, for more information.
Next Steps
The Leeds Doughnut Coalition is currently taking some time to review what's been done so far and to plan what we want to do in the next year and beyond. We hope to have more information to share in Spring 2023 - so watch this space!
We are participating in # GlobalDonutDayhashtag_lookup:#GlobalDonutDay on 13th November 2023.
Poppy Cooke
Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
I am recent Environment economics and ecology student from the University of York. For my dissertation project a carried out an an